Muscovites check radishes for radiation; A $50 personal Geiger counter gives Russians a sense of confidence atthe market.(World)

The Christian Science Monitor | November 4, 1999| | Copyright

Svetlana Batinova never leaves home without it. Her Geiger counter, that is.

"You cannot trust anything the government says, and you certainly can't believe what vendors in the market tell you," says the accountant. "If you want to know, you'd better have the means to find out for yourself."

Her Geiger counter is a battery driven palm-size device that looks like a calculator and, when switched on and held up to an object, purportedly measures its level of radioactivity. She paid about $50 for it last year in a Moscow electronics shop.

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